hang
About 10.99 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To be or remain suspended.
The lights hung from the ceiling.
- verb To float, as if suspended.
The smoke hung in the room.
- verb To veer in one direction.
- verb To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
- verb To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
He hung his head in shame.
- verb To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
Hang those lights from the ceiling.
- verb To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
The culprits were hanged from the nearest tree.
- verb To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
You will hang for this, my friend.
Similar words
hang up bent string up flow fall knack give ear pay attention attend pay heed
Often followed by
on out up in around the it a over of
Word family
hangable hanged hanging hangs hung
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